Re: [WiX-users] "Formatted strings" not being formatted

2013-03-09 Thread Neil Sleightholm
' Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] "Formatted strings" not being formatted Yep, after a number of trials and errors, this was bang on. For the record (and anyone in the future trying to do something similar), here&

Re: [WiX-users] "Formatted strings" not being formatted

2013-03-08 Thread Alain Forget
Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: March 7, 2013 19:39 To: ; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] "Formatted strings" not being formatted Use a CA to set the value of the property at runtime right before

Re: [WiX-users] "Formatted strings" not being formatted

2013-03-07 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Use a CA to set the value of the property at runtime right before scheduling the deferred CA. You might even be able to assign the property the value of itself so it evaluates it at runtime. Deferred CA's are special as they only have access to the limited data you explicitly send to them (and